The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford Freshman, Bind 1N. Cooke, 1853 - 118 sider |
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Side 40 - And I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm : So help me God.
Side 56 - Larkyns was no smoker himself, he at least kept a bountiful supply of ' smoke' for his friends ; but the perfumed cloud that was proceeding from his lips as Verdant entered the room, dispelled all doubts on the subject. lie was much changed iu appearance during the somewhat long interval since Verdant had last seen him, and his handsome features had assumed a more manly, though perhaps a more rakish look. He was lolling on a couch in the neglige attire of dressing-gown and slippers, 'with his pink...
Side 40 - I will be faithful, and bear true allegiance to his Majesty king George.— So help me God.' ' I, AB, do swear, that I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure, as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position, that Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope, or any authority of the See of Rome, may be deposed or murthered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever.
Side 69 - s drunken, fiery face no less) Drinks up the sea, and when he's done, The moon and stars drink up the sun. They drink and dance by their own light, They drink and revel all the night. Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal health goes round. Fill up the bowl, then, fill it high, Fill all the glasses there, for why Should every creature drink but I : Why, man of morals, tell me why 1 BEAUTY.
Side 40 - ... or deprived by the Pope or any authority of the See of Rome may be deposed or murdered by their subjects or any other whatsoever; and I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state or potentate hath or ought to have any jurisdiction, power or superiority, preeminence, or authority ecclesiastical or spiritual within this realm. -. , .
Side 90 - O ye spires of Oxford ! domes and towers ! Gardens and groves ! your presence overpowers The soberness of reason ; till, in sooth, Transformed, and rushing on a bold exchange I slight my own beloved Cam, to range Where silver Isis leads my stripling feet ; Pace the long avenue, or glide adown The stream-like windings of that glorious street — An eager novice robed in fluttering...
Side 37 - In short, if the maps of Oxford are to be trusted, there had been a general pousset movement among its public buildings. But if such a shrewd and practised observer as Sir Walter Scott, after a week's hard and systematic sight-seeing, could only say of Oxford, " The time has been much too short to convey to me separate and distinct ideas of all the variety of wonders that I saw : my memory only at present furnishes a grand but indistinct picture of towers, and chapels, and oriels, and vaulted halls,...
Side 109 - When the degrees are conferred, the name of each person is read out before he is presented to the Vice-Chancellor. The proctor then walks once up and down the room, so that any person who objects to the degree being granted may signify the same by pulling or " plucking
Side 64 - Brasenose claims his palace, Oriel his church, and University his school or academy. Of these Brasenose College is still called, in its formal style, ' the King's Hall,' which is the name by which Alfred himself, in his laws, calls his palace ; and it has its present singular name from a corruption of brasinium, or brasinImse, as having been originally located in that part of .the royal mansion which was devoted to the then important accommodation of a brew-house.